Influence of nonexcitable cells on spiral breakup in two-dimensional and three-dimensional excitable media
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Influence of nonexcitable cells on spiral breakup in two-dimensional and three-dimensional excitable media.
We study spiral wave dynamics in the presence of nonexcitable cells in two-dimensional (2D) and three-dimensional (3D) excitable media, described by the Aliev-Panfilov model. We find that increasing the percentage of randomly distributed nonexcitable cells can prevent the breaking up of a spiral wave into a complex spatiotemporal pattern. We show that this effect is more pronounced in 2D than 3...
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عنوان ژورنال: Physical Review E
سال: 2003
ISSN: 1063-651X,1095-3787
DOI: 10.1103/physreve.68.062902